Becoming a bloodstock agent...

[show_jumper]

hi. my friend really wants to become a bloodstock agent specialising in show jumpers - she asked me how she could go about doing this, and i didnt know!!!

do any of you know how someone can go about getting into this sort of profession?? any help would be great! thanks!

 

[Rambo]

Is it a 'profession' then

I thought most people 'fell' into doing a bit of dealing lol!

 

[Laafet]

well a bloodstock agent is some one who buys TB's usually as foals/yearlings and up for other people and themselves. The name bloodstock comes from the TB which are Blood horses. So have never heard of that name put to showjumpers. A little confused.

 

[goeslikestink]

welll you would have to known an awful lot about jumping and breeding -- and most likely to have been a show jumper

there are people that do it but not in this country biggest sales for
show jumpers is in france -- nash.com

you have to know all the breed and x breeds -- and a lot of top show jumpers are related -- and some breeds like selle fraciase can be registered as a holstein and oldenburg or kwpn
and then you have to know all about points systems intyo other countrys

cso cci etc -- its not easy -- then on top of that you have to sell horses as either good jumpers or productions

with any sport a bloodstock agent has to know all the in and outs of that sport of which it want to be an agent with

for exsample can your mate sell aned to the witakers and say for definate that horse is a winner and prove to sponsors of that investment is a dead cert on the circuit -- best odds

as to the same in racing - you have to know the bloodstock the history --- of that chosen sport inside out and breeding

then you have to sell it --

 

[Petrie]

My friend works for a bloodstock agent.

He buys TB foals or yearlings bred for racing from the sales or from his breeder contacts, then keeps them for however many months he needs to, then spends about 6 weeks prepping them for the sales, which involves getting them used to being handled, led about, washed, groomed etc. For the yearlings, they have to long-rein and lunge them and put them on the walker too. After 6 weeks they go to the sales looking like proper muscled up horses.

He has a very good eye for a horse, obviously knows all the breeding, which sires are currently en vogue etc, and has loads of contacts in racing. He normally buys them for about £10 - £20K, then doubles or triples this when they go to the sales again. Of course, things go wrong, and he also loses money sometimes, or doesn't make any profit at all.

I have never heard of it for show jumping, only for racing. If she means buying foals or yearlings bred for showjumping, spending a few years producing them, then selling them on as 4 or 5 yr olds, this is surely a producer, not a bloodstock agent.

I'm not sure it's something you can easily just decide to want to get into, you have to be well established in the industry to begin with.